September 26, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsWhy are some books collected and others merely read? During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.
May 24, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsGutenberg Misbound When Johann Gutenberg and his team published their Bible in the mid-1450s, what they were selling to buyers were sets of sheets, sheets of either paper or parchment that had text printed on them. What they were not selling were books—not, at least, if we take “book,” as we usually do,… read more
April 7, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA novel discovery While doing research in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel. Titled Foreign Born, it tells the story of Ernst Weiman, a German immigrant living in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan during World War I.
